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- ICECOLOR v1.3 programmed by Leviathan of iCE
-
- General Description
- -------------------
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- iCECOLOR disables the blink on your monitor. What does this mean? This
- means that you get 16 colors in the background as well as 16 colors in the
- foreground.
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- How it works
- ------------
- The attribute byte is set up like this :
-
- before : after :
- |7|6|5|4|3|2|1|0| |7|6|5|4|3|2|1|0|
- | | | | | | | | |
- | +---+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+
- | | | | |
- blink back foreground background foreground
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- Usesuly when you change video modes everything goes back to normal, but I've
- taken over interrupt 10H so it turns off the blink everytime you change modes
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- Installation
- ------------
- Put ICECOLOR.EXE and COLOR.COM in your path. Run program with ICECOLOR.EXE
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- Options
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- Usage : ICECOLOR [option]
- Options : /U - Unload from memory
- /D - Disable ICECOLOR
- /E - Re-enable ICECOLOR
- /? - Get help screen
- File List
- ---------
- ICECOLOR.EXE - Main program - interphases with the TSR
- COLOR.COM - Actual TSR (don't run directly)
- ICECOLOR.DOC - This file
- WHATSNEW.TXT - Chages
- TSR_LIB.ZIP - File containing programming information
- + TSR_LIB.C - C source for interphasing with ICECOLOR
- + TSR_LIB.H - Header file w/ Assembly explanations
- + EXAMPLE.C - Majority of source code to ICECOLOR.EXE
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- Programming Support
- -------------------
- Check TSR_LIB.ZIP
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- Using ICECOLOR with The Draw
- ----------------------------
- The draw has no idea that ICECOLOR is installed, so it still thinks it is
- using the setup of : 8 background, 16 forefround, 16 blinking. You will
- noctice that the blinking colors no longer blink, and their background is
- high intensity black. This is because black w/o blink = dark grey. so you
- select you colors as follows :
- regular background colors work normaly :
- 0-7 for background and 0-15 for foreground
- for high intensity background colors :
- select from colors 16-31 to choose your foreground color, while
- telling the computer that you whant a high-intensity background
- then choose colors 0-7 for you background color, but they will
- now be high intensity
- problems w/ the draw :
- When you are using high intensity colors and you use the delete key,
- or clear the screen, it will use high intensity black for the background,
- so make shure that you are in a normal background color when you delete
- or clear the screen.
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- Source code availibility
- ------------------------
- The TSR section of ICECOLOR was written in 100% assembly, and the loader part
- was written in C. If you would like the source, or have a question, try
- to get in touch w/ me... somehow.
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